This chapter analyzes the available information regarding the main drivers of global change
operating in Patagonia, including climate change and its impact on biodiversity, the …

The coastal Atlantic area of Patagonia has a marked variability in physicochemical and
biological properties. It is already affected by global change, as evidenced in historical …

Effect of global change variables on the structure and photosynthesis of phytoplankton
communities was evaluated in three different sites of the Patagonian coast of Argentina …

Increasing nutrient inputs driven by global environmental pressures may lead to changes in
prokaryotic plankton biomass and community composition in coastal environments. Nutrient …

Rainfall events bring both, terrigenous materials (including DOM) and nutrients to the
aquatic system (eg, via riverine runoff) having potential effects on the structure and …

We evaluated the dual role of DOM (ie, as a source of inorganic nutrients and as an
absorber of solar radiation) on a phytoplankton community of the western South Atlantic …

Estuaries represent the interface between riverine and marine ecosystems and they are
among the most productive areas on Earth; thus it is of utmost importance to understand …

Riverine and eolian-dust inputs to coastal waters are influenced by both rainfall and land-
use (ie, deforestation, agriculture, urbanization). Transport of sediments and nutrients from …

Ocean acidification (OA) continues to be one of the most studied single topics in marine
science. Almost 800 articles on OA appeared in 2016 alone. Forty-four of those were …

Over the last two decades, an increasing interest has arisen in the responses of primary
producers to global-change drivers and, more recently, in the need to consider how those …